If Only

"I don't think that there's much risk in your studying the message again if you don't actually touch the tile," Fred said. "After all, just reading it did not set off the trap the first time. And even if it were to grab you again, I could just read the inscription on the box a second time and it would free you. As I told you, I'm no good at memorising stuff, or I'd study the tile myself."

"I'm not convinced that the trap would be fooled in the same way a second time. If only we'd thought to bring something to write with, then you could have copied the message."

1. "That's true."
2. "Silly me. I quite forgot. Manathus gave me a piece of parchment and a stick of charcoal for that very purpose. They're in my nightshirt pocket."

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